Various Denominations Attittude toward Hymns
- High versus Low Church
- The Plymouth Brethren
- The Disappearance of Hell from Revival Hymns in the 1870s
The Hymn as a Literary Form (needed)
- Introduction
- Rhetoric and Structure
- Relations to Secular Poetry
Political and Social Contexts
- The Importance of Hymns
- Gender Matters (needed)
- Class and Society (needed)
Authors
Individual Hymns
- Anonymous, "Jerusalem, my happy home" (commentary)
- Anonymous, "Lord! may the inward grace abound" (commentary)
- William Cowper, "Old Testament Gospel" (commentary)
- Joseph Griggs, "Behold! a Stranger's at the door!" (commentary)
- Reginald Heber, “From Greenland's Icy Mountains” (text and commentary)
- Reginald Heber, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.”
- Reginald Heber, “Brightest and best of the sons of the morning” (text)
- Reginald Heber, “Lord of mercy and of might” (text)
- Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic" (commentary)
- William Montague Toplady, "Rock of Ages; other mentions and Fairbairn's criticism.
- William Montague Toplady, "Deathless principle, arise! (second example)
- John Newton, Olney Hymns (commentary)
- Isaac Watts, "Captain and Conqueror" (commentary)
- Isaac Watts, "Go, worship at Immanuel's feet" (commentary)
- Isaac Watts, "There is a land of pure delight" (commentary)
- William Williams, "Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah!" (commentary)
Bibliography: E-Texts
A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists by John Wesley (HTML at CCEL)
Heber, Reginald. The Poetical Works. Boston: Little, Brown, 1853. [available at Internet Archive/Google.]
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